Library Performance and Service Competition
Library Performance and Service Competition

Author: Larry Nash White

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 178063126X

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A practice-driven and proven resource for library administrators of all types of libraries. The work describes how the library can identify the service environment factors impacting customers; strategic needs; identify library competitors; strategic abilities and service environment impacts; and use the combined results to develop proactive competitive responses that drive the service environment instead of reacting to the service environment. These strategic competitive responses would allow the library to increase the value of its service impact and effectiveness while increasing customer appreciation and the libraries advantage in the competitive service environment. - Written by a highly knowledgeable practitioner from the library field - Experience of the author (library and for-profit management experience) provides a hybrid/blended view of library competition and management responses from both the library and for-profit management worlds - Written to applicable to all types of libraries

Library Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness
Library Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness

Author: Ernest R. DeProspo

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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This volume is the most comprehensive compilation of ideas related to library performance yet assembled. It brings together noted researchers and successful library directors and educators who have extended the landmark findings and efforts of their mentor and friend, Ernest DeProsp. The editors give a historical account of contemporary measurement activities; suggest methodologies for measuring performance; offer viewpoints on planning, goal-setting and validity; and comment on problems associated with planning, one of the major tools of measurement. Readers of the book will develop informed opinions about planning, a practice that when entered into unaware can enslave an organization in endless data gathering routines and tax their endurance beyond reasonable points. Thought-provoking comments on the directions taken, and not taken, by library thinkers challenge the reader to speculate about current library-think.

Library Statistics for the Twenty-first Century World
Library Statistics for the Twenty-first Century World

Author: Michael Heaney

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 359822043X

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The International Federation of Library Associations began a global statistics project in relation to worldwide libraries in 2006. The results are reported here from all over the world and there are several papers specifically on public libraries and university libraries.

Library Statistics for the Twenty-First Century World
Library Statistics for the Twenty-First Century World

Author: Michael Heaney

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009-05-08

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 3598441673

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An international collaboration between IFLA, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed standards for new library indicators for the twenty-first century. The existing international library statistics were developed nearly 40 years ago. This book presents the first results using the new statistics, and look forward to the next steps. It also contains other initiatives and developments in the fields of library statistics, benchmarking and indicators.

Administration of the Public Library
Administration of the Public Library

Author: Alice Gertzog

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 0810847566

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Combines theory and practical advice to address public library policies, procedures, resources, and human relations in a clear manner. "Expect future editions of this eminently readable, yet well-documented text." —LIBRARY JOURNAL

International and Comparative Studies in Information and Library Science
International and Comparative Studies in Information and Library Science

Author: Yan Quan Liu

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780810859159

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Comparative studies in information and library science published in the past ten years have reflected a broad spectrum of backgrounds, interests, and issues, but until now services between different countries, Asian nations in particular, have never been gathered or organized into a single source. As demand from researchers, students, directors, and practitioners for pertinent literature continues to grow, there is a definite and increasing need for a focused guide to international and comparative librarianship. International and Comparative Studies in Information and Library Science: A Focus on the United States and Asian Countries consists of eighteen previously published articles divided into seven categories that address issues such as research methodologies; information policy; professional education; information organization; and school, academic, and public libraries. It also features a comprehensive bibliography of related articles, books, proceedings, and other publications in both English and Chinese and four appendixes that list curricula, journal titles, conferences, and websites relating to International and comparative librarianship available at the time of publication. With this important compilation, Yan Quan Liu and Xiaojun Cheng fill an important and previously unmet need. Book jacket.

Community Empowerment through Research, Innovation and Open Access
Community Empowerment through Research, Innovation and Open Access

Author: Joko Sayono

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-20

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1000415783

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ICHSS is an international seminar that is held every two years organized by the Research and Community Service Institute of the State University of Malang. The meeting aims to discuss the theoretical and practical developments of Social Sciences and Humanities in Indonesia and other countries with a view to build academic networks by gathering academics from various research institutes and universities. Community empowerment serves as a trigger to increase community independence and to cope with the challenges resulting from the rapid development of technology. An important aspect of the community empowerment effort is to link the results of innovation research for the benefit of community. The results of research should not only be limited to publications in the academic environment. Open Access to various forms of the existing literature is one of the requirements for innovative research to develop optimally. Therefore, this seminar has also served as a place for field researchers from various geographical areas to socialize, to discuss and to find solutions to current issues in the field of social sciences and humanities, as well as to build cooperation and synergy in creating ideas for mutual collaboration and to create joint research.

Silencing Scientists and Scholars in Other Fields
Silencing Scientists and Scholars in Other Fields

Author: Gordon Moran

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1998-04-20

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0313374228

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An examination of power paradigm controls, peer review and scholarly communication. It covers issues such as: silencing scholars within totalitarian and democratic forms of government; intellectual freedom, intellectual suppression, the big lie and the freedom to lie; and rhetoric versus reality.